Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Vadim Cherny <him AT vadimcherny.org>]

Why would barasit signify segholization rather than a peculiar [br] 
environment which calls for vowel interpolation?
Why would segholization be related vowel shortening? The vowels didn't 
become shorter from ancient calbi to segholate cAlab-calb-celev.

Vadim Cherny

Kevin P. Edgecomb wrote:
> Yitzhak wrote:
> > Why do you think this list signifies segholization?
>
> I write:
> I don't think it does.  But in comparison with the transliteration 
> scheme of Origen: barasith versus brisith or birsith (note that 
> Epiphanius will have been working with an eta already itacized), we're 
> clearly dealing with the same process of the shortening/sharpening of 
> vowels in the two centuries since Origen's time that segholization is 
> likewise a symptom of.
>
> Regards,
> Kevin P. Edgecomb
> Berkeley, California